going from 1999.. serial to 2000.. in SOA

[Cricket Liu]

> I updated one of my db files and changed the serial in the SOA
> from 1999112301 to 2000011601 and bind 8 complains about that
> serial number.  I can't imagine why, as this seems to be way
> below the 32 bit overflow and even the halfway point to the
> overflow (2,147,508,647).
> 
> Anyone know why it would have difficulty with this?

What's the actual error message BIND is producing?  Are
you sure it's complaining about the *size* of the number?

cricket

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